A beautiful experience with Shaz and Isaac.
Category: Family
Yesterday’s walk
Celebrating
IQ and his rugby team
Joining the world’s first gay rugby team changed my life. So I made a film about it
At school, the homophobic bullying was worst on the rugby pitch. But the Steelers helped me rediscover my love for the game – and myself
‘Over time the Steelers won the respect of these straight burly British men because not only did they beat them on occasion, they showed them that we’re all pretty much the same.’
So you can imagine my surprise when years later, a rugby club would go on to change my life. Not just any rugby club, the world’s first gay rugby club, the Kings Cross Steelers in London.
First trip to Griffin Park- revisited
I have previously written about my memories of going to GP for my first game. I managed to track down the game with the use of THE ENGLISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL ARCHIVE. I narrowed it down to the Boxing Day match in 1971.
Now I have found more information after buying book about Griffin Park.
From that I can see that it was a big match with a remarkably large crowd of 18,000+.
This also invokes the memory of once queuing for ages to get in with my Dad. So maybe this was the match and it was almost a family day out!
Peter
Tuesday 20 October was the funeral of Peter.
He was diagnosed with his cancer in early 2018 and unfortunately curative treatment did not work out for him.
The service was held within he limitations of the Covid-19 pandemic rules, do there was no function afterwards. One of the readings in the service makes you think about the important things in life:
Hello to Mum and Dad
A trip to the cemetery to say hello and tidy up a bit.
Of course people are always dying so there is a funeral happening at the moment. It seems a happy affair with lots of people and music.
That’s the way to go.
Les Miserables revisited
The long running LesMis production has just moved to the Sondheim theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. So Joe’s and my return to the show was at a different venue to the one that Shaz and I watched in last year.
As with these it events it was full. We were near the top rung again but not so high and uncomfortable as with other shows.
The show was great and the apparent innovations introduced worked very well in my eyes. The projection of the sewers and the falling off the wall of the policeman to his death.
A wonderful experience for both of us. I would happily see again.
More RAH
Another family trip, all five, to the musical venue. The show was a mixture of classic carols and well known Christmas populars.
Good fun for the most part and of course a bit cheesy in places. There were plenty of opportunities to sing along.
Panto
The Christmas binge goes on and Friday night was Panto night at the Questors in Ealing.
A trio for five that was fully enjoyed. It was a different style of performance from last year when Shaz, Joe and I went to Wimbledon Theatre to see Paul Merton among others.
The actors were mainly children from the Questors young person’s school. There were lots of their mums and dads in the audience I think.
The Pantones was funny, good fun and beautiful. Very different from last years but good all the same and still the same classic format.
Cool.